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|System: Wii, PC, DS
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: Infinite Interactive
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Zoo Games
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: May 16, 2009
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1-2
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Everyone
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
From the folks who gave us Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords and Galactrix comes the latest from Infinite Interactive. Puzzle Kingdoms is built upon many of the fundamental elements of Puzzle Quest, but the developer has managed to once again carve out another unique twist for the genre.
Theres no customization for your specific character, other than merely picking a male or female to play as, but the focus of the game doesnt really call for it, either. A famine has spread across the land, and you take it upon yourself to offer relief to the people. Of course, in order to bring salvation to the world, youll have to conquer kingdoms along the way. The presentation is typical fare from Infinite Interactive that is to say its sparse but the story is surprisingly decent and does a fine job of giving you a reason to push on.
One of the few problems youll encounter with Puzzle Kingdoms, however, is that it does a pretty poor job of teaching you the ropes. Even with the tutorials turned on, theres so much left unexplained, and since the game is heavily based on strategy, its a notable issue indeed. Youll have to engage in a fair amount of experimentation and pay close attention to what certain gems do when matched up.
Yup, this is a match-three puzzle game, if youve havent already figured that out. However, Puzzle Kingdoms definitely puts its own spin on the formula. Rather than swapping gems to make matching rows of three, youre moving entire rows of gems, either up or down or from side to side. Youre not required to create straight, matching rows; your gems only need to be directly touching in order to be utilized. Lastly, you can see the next gem of each row outside of the frame, and this approach opens up a whole new element of strategy for fans of this type of puzzler.
Another notable difference from Infinites other puzzle RPGs is that chaining gem matches dont stack to create extra turns (except in multiplayer). You can fill more gem slots by matching more than three gems at a time, but the games more simplified approach seems to really cut down on some of the cheapness weve experienced in the developers other titles.
Though the story revolves around your character, youre not the one actually going into battle. Youll form parties comprised of a hero and up to four units. Heroes can cast spells, but its your units that will do most of the representing during combat. For example, if you have a party made up of one peasant, two swordsmen and an archer, they will take the damage inflicted by the enemy, as well as dole out the hurt. Your party is stacked from top to bottom, with your top guy generally acting as the front line and recipient of whatever attacks come your way. Once that unit is defeated, then the next one takes his place as your partys shield, so to speak.
In order to attack, your units require a certain number of gem slots to be filled. Matching three of a certain gem type fills one slot; matching more than three gems fills additional slots. Once you have enough slots filled, you can either swipe the Wii Remote sideways or merely press a button to attack. Your party members each have a damage rating and a defense rating. Once the defense for a particular party member reaches zero, theyre dead. Party members dont revive after battles, either, and youll need to recruit new ones from one of your bases. Units arent free, and in that respect, the game encourages a methodical approach to each battle. Additionally, if your entire party is wiped out, youll lose your hero. If you have additional heroes, you can choose to have one of them take a fallen heros place or donate half your current gold to revive your hero.
The battles and progression of conquering new realms in Puzzle Kingdoms is undeniably fun and addictive, but the campaign, as a whole, does have a handful of frustrating elements that hold it back. For one, there are mini-games thrown into the mix, and youll need to play through these quests in order to gain new types of units, spells, and other assorted goodies. Problem is, the mini-games can be quite tedious, and ultimately, youll be forced to trudge through them in order to progress the story and build up your kingdom.


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People often ask how corn yields in China or elsewhere compare to corn yields in the U.S. The foreign data are normally reported in tonnes per hectare while most of us think of yields in bushels per acre. We calculated the trend yields for key countries and regions using the 1999 through 2013 data. The following table converts recent years' yields into bushels per acre for comparison.
The analysis shows U.S. corn yield well above those of other countries even with the poor yields of the last few years factored in (we included all years except 2012). But the data also shows that yields are rising at a faster pace in some key competing countries. Yields in the former Soviet Union, principally Ukraine, are increasing at a rate of about 3 bushels per acre per year, not quite double the rate in the U.S. Corn yields in the former Soviet Union are still well below those in the U.S. but the big gains in yields are allowing the region to export a lot more corn.
China's trend yields are approaching 100 bushels per acre, which suggests that there is still a lot of room for improvement. The trend yield in China is rising at a rate of 1.37 bushels per acre per year, a little below the annual growth in the U.S. yield. That suggests that the gap between the U.S. and China's yields will continue to widen at least over the near term. China's yield finally tops 100 bushels per acre in 2018.
Brazil's corn production and exports are also increasing dramatically. The rate of increase in trend yields in Brazil also exceeds that for the U.S. (2.4 bushels per acre per year versus 1.7 bushels per acre per year). Brazil has also seen a 4 million acre increase in harvested area over the past decade. These factors turned Brazil into the world's largest corn exporter in the 2012/13 season.
While corn area in Africa has been increasing in recent years (up almost 17 million acres between 2002/03 and 2012/13) corn yields in the region are still very low at least compared to yields in other parts of the world. The trends show that even by 2020, corn yields in Africa will still average below 35 bushels per acre. Even if corn acreage rises by another 5 million acres between now and 2020, imports of about 20 million tonnes will be needed to balance supply with consumption.
Argentina's yields are the closest to those in the U.S. in the countries and regions included in this analysis. Yields in Argentina are forecast to be near 120 bushels per acre this season (2013/14) a little above the trend based on the 1999 to 2013 data. Yields in Argentina are pretty erratic, with a record high over 132 bushels per acre in 2009/10 and 93 bushels per acre in 2011/12. For all of the countries and regions included in the analysis the yield variability is the highest in Argentina.
The average world corn yield is about 85 bushels per acre. World corn yields are rising at between 1.3 percent and 1.4 percent per year, a faster pace than the growth in world population of 1.16 percent per year. That allows for some modest increase in per capita consumption, even with no increase in corn area. However, world corn area has increased significantly over the last few years further boosting overall production.

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Upcoming Events!
Climbing the Ladder of Success in a Nineteenth-Century Boomtown: The Cohen Family in Early Baltimore
Sunday, February 15th, 1:00 P.M.
Speaker: Tina Sheller, Goucher College
When Israel I. Cohen died in Richmond, Virginia in 1803, his wife, Judith, packed up her belongings and moved herself and her children to Baltimore. Why Baltimore? Early Baltimore was a bustling port town of merchants, shopkeepers, skilled craftsmen, workers, and slaves. How did these groups contribute to the dynamic expansion of the city's antebellum economy? Who were the people that populated the growing port town, and how did the Cohens and other Jewish families adapt to life in a city soon to be known as "Mobtown?" All of these questions and more will be answered as we journey back in time to the era of Boomtown Baltimore.
Tina H. Sheller is an assistant professor of History at Goucher College where she teaches courses in American history and Historic Preservation.
How Jews Entered American Politics: The Curious Case of Maryland's "Jew Bill"
Sunday, February 22nd, 1 p.m.
Rafael Medoff, The David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
During Maryland's first decades, a "Christians Only" policy applied to those seeking public office. Dr. Rafael Medoff, a noted scholar of Jewish involvement in American politics, will take a candid look at the Maryland legislature's debates in the early 1800s over political rights for Jews and other non-Christians –a controversy that sheds fascinating light on the process by which Jews entered the American political arena.
Dr. Rafael Medoff is the author of 15 books about American Jewish history, Zionism, and the Holocaust, including a textbook, Jewish Americans and Political Participation, which was named an "Outstanding Academic Title of 2003" by the American Library Association's Choice Magazine.
The Girls' Photography Project Exhibition Reception
Sunday, March 1, 1:00pm
Program included with museum admission
In 2014, 15 African American and Orthodox Jewish girls ages 10-14 participated in a series of workshops that enabled them to learn about each other's perspectives living in their northwest Baltimore City community. They learned to use a camera, take quality photos and most importantly, got to know one another while gaining an understanding of each other's life experiences. The photos in this exhibit feature their view points and are truly one of a kind.
The exhibit has been sponsored by CHAI: Comprehensive Housing Assistance Inc. in partnership with Wide Angle Media. This project has been generously supported by: David and Barbara B. Hirschhorn Foundation, The Fund for Change at The Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund, Nathan & Lillian Weinberg Family Foundation, The Grandchildren of Harvey M. and Lyn P. Meyerhoff Philanthropic Fund, and The Samuel I. "Sandy" Rosenberg Fund.
The exhibit will be on display February 23-March 8, 2015.
Opening Reception for My Family Story
Thursday, March 12
7:00 – 9:00pm
Join the JMM for an evening celebrating/honoring Jewish family history. Over the past few months, the JMM has worked with middle school students from Beth Tfiloh on an exciting and creative education program, My Family Story. In this inspiring program, students work with museum staff to investigate their family roots and discover deeper connections to larger issues of American Jewish history, community, Jewish identity and Israel. Their exploration culminates in an artistic expression that creatively represents their family's history. The JMM is greatly looking forward to showcasing all of the students' work on the evening of March 12th and invites the community to join us.
Got Shabbat: Bolton Street Synagogue with Jewish Museum of Maryland
March 13, 2015, 5:45pm
Venue: Bolton Street Synagogue
Join the Jewish Museum of Maryland, Bolton Street Synagogue and the Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore for a fantastic Shabbat evening specially designed for families with young chidlren.
Got Shabbat is an enriching family-friendly Shabbat celebration at a different synagogue each month. The evening includes Tot Shabbat, a full catered Shabbat dinner and activities for young children. Enjoy the opportunity to meet and connect with other families and the Jewish community. Families new to the area, interfaith families, and families new to Shabbat observance are all welcome and encouraged to join in the fun!
Contact: Cindy Neuman
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Register Online
For more information visit jcc.org/gotshabbat
Late Night on Lloyd Street: DIY Matzah Making
Thursday, March 19, 2015, 6pm
During the Passover Seder, we don't just hear the story of Exodus; we see, smell, feel and taste liberation. Prepare for this multi-sensory experience with a night of wine tasting and matzah making! Matzah and wine are both central Passover symbols. Join us as we learn about the significance of matzah with Rabbi Levi Druk of Chabad Downtown and sample a variety of mevushal wines from Canton Crossing Wine & Spirits. Finally, have the chance to make your own matzah to share with friends and family for the holiday!
As with all late nights we will have plenty of food and drink available. Contact Carolyn Bevans at 410-732-6402 x215 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com with questions!
What the Ancient Egyptians Took with Them—and Why
Speaker Dr. Betsy Bryan, Johns Hopkins University
Sunday, March 29, 2015, 1 pm
Included with Museum Admission
Mendes Cohen spent several months travelling in Egypt building a wonderful collection of antiquities that would later go on to form the basis of the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum. We are very excited to be welcoming museum director Prof. Betsey Bryan to talk about the collection Mendes developed and the Egypt Mendes would have encountered during his travels.
Egypt Family Day
Sunday, April 12, 2015, 12 – 4pm
A 19th-Century American Jew Visits the Holy Land: Mendes Cohen in Jerusalem
Speaker: Dr. Deborah Weiner
Sunday, April 19th, 1:00 P.M.
Included with Museum Admission
Travel to the Holy Land with Mendes Cohen, early 19th century adventurer and proud citizen of the young American republic. Cohen's account of his Middle Eastern journey, entertainingly recorded in his letters home, paints a fascinating portrait of the Jewish community of Palestine and offers a remarkable glimpse into one man's evolving American Jewish identity.
Deborah R. Weiner is former Research Historian and Family History Coordinator at the Jewish Museum of Maryland. She is currently co-writing a book on the history of the Jews of Baltimore.
Closing Reception for Learning Your Letters: Braille Art
Sunday, May 3, 2015
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Admission is Free
Learning Your Letters: Braille Art, presented by the JMM and the Braille Art Gallery, features braille drawings of artists of all ages and all abilities, to promote braille literacy. The exhibit will be open to the public in the lobby of the Jewish Museum of Maryland, from April 15, 2015, through May 3, 2015.


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Spirituality and Religion
March 2017
"The buses, the standard yellow American school bus variety, were distinguished
by large Arabic and English lettering on their sides."
~ from Ziauddin Sardar's
Recent Releases
Talking God: Philosophers on Belief
Gary Gutting
Talking God
, University of Notre Dame philosophy professor Gary Gutting collects 12 interviews (which first appeared in the
New York Times
philosophy blog
The Stone
) with other philosophers about the nature of belief and theism. Each philosopher explains his or her reasons for being an atheist, an agnostic, or a believer. In order to avoid slanting his philosophical sample toward the Judeo-Christian tradition, Gutting includes interviews with people from other faith traditions: Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. You'll find a range of carefully considered views on the intersection of philosophy and religion in these "approachable, civilized discussions about the existence of God" (
Kirkus Reviews
, starred review).
At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life
Thich Nhat Hanh
The acclaimed Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh offers fresh autobiographical inspiration in
At Home in the World
. Using accounts of five periods his in life to introduce specific spiritual challenges, he provides several short observations under each heading that illustrate his principles of compassion and empathy. Fans of this religious leader and readers new to his work will find thought-provoking guidance for "everyday practice and for social engagement in the world" (
Publishers Weekly
Love Hurts: Buddhist Advice for the Heartbroken
Lodro Rinzler
In this book on emotional healing, Buddhist teacher and columnist for the
Huffington Post
Lodro Rinzler offers advice based on the Buddha's precepts about suffering -- including but not limited to solace for the lovelorn. Built on his notes from short sessions during which Rinzler listened to people who came to share their heartbreaks, each chapter offers spiritual counsel for specific experiences, from "What Is Heartbreak?" to "If You Need to Hear a Joke" to "If You Feel Acceptance." Introductory and concluding chapters frame these anecdotal teachings on spiritual self-care.
Publishers Weekly
calls this a "superb book for any heartbroken reader."
Travel and Religion
The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition
Doreen Carvajal
Suspecting that her family history might harbor a centuries-old secret, veteran journalist Doreen Carvajal, who writes for
International Herald Tribune
and the
New York Times
, turned her reporter's eye on herself. Though she grew up Catholic in California, she felt there were clues that she was descended from Sephardic Jews who'd been forced to convert during the Inquisition and who'd kept remnants of their old faith. Tracing her family's roots to Arcos de la Frontera in southern Spain, she left her Paris home and moved to the Spanish town to find out more.
Kirkus Reviews
The Forgetting River
"a mesmerizing journey through time, across cultures, and into one woman's rich personal history."
Called Again: A Story of Love and Triumph
Jennifer Pharr Davis
In this inspiring account of author Jennifer Pharr Davis' record-time completion of the Appalachian Trail, we read of her emotional and physical challenges on the 272-mile journey. Sustained not only by her partner and husband, Brew, but also by her Christian faith, Davis walked from Maine to North Carolina in 46 days. She also came to a deeper understanding of her relationship with God. This memoir may motivate you to undertake long hikes, but even if it doesn't, it could encourage you to make the most of your own spiritual gifts.
Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James
David Downie; photographs by Alison Harris
Though food writer David Downie wasn't interested in the religious aspects of the pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James in Compostela, Spain, he decided to trace the ancient route for its historic significance and in order to improve his health. Setting off on the Rue Saint-Jacques in Paris (the medieval but not the modern pilgrims' starting point) and walking through France with his wife, photographer Alison Harris, Downie found inspiration despite his skepticism. Noting intersections between Celtic and Roman history, Christian churches and other shrines, and the modern people he met, he began to reflect more deeply on philosophical questions he found important. Harris' photographs accompany this thought-provoking chronicle.
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
Gerard Russell
Though Islam is the most common religion practiced in the Middle East, there are dozens of others that most Westerners know very little about. In this engaging book, a curious former British diplomat who lived in the area for over a decade provides an accessible introduction to several minor religions that have survived for centuries but are now in danger of extinction. Traveling around the Middle East, Gerard Russell learns about and meets Yazidis, Zoroastrians, Copts, Druze, Samaritans, Kalasha, Mandaeans, Manicheans, and others. For another lighthearted and informative religious tour, try William Dalrymple's
From the Holy Mountain
, which explores Christian communities in the region.
Mecca: The Sacred City
Ziauddin Sardar
Pakistani-born Londoner Ziauddin Sardar introduces the history of Islam and its cultural influences in this witty and personal study of Mecca. The holiest city for Muslims, who are expected to visit there at least once in their lives, Mecca's primary function as a religious symbol contrasts with the reality that it's a modern city. Recounting intriguing stories about individuals (such as the Dutch spy who was expelled after his false conversion was exposed), warring political factions, and archaeological travesties, Sardar pays tribute to the deep spiritual and historical roots of the site in this "beautifully written and revealing" (
) study.
Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Guidance-Counselling Strategies and Conformity with Code of Conduct in Secondary Schools in Gulu Municipality, Uganda
The purpose of this research paper is to demonstrate that guidance and counselling strategies play a central role in school efforts to improve learners' levels of conformity with the code of conduct. A cross sectional parallel sample survey design was used. A total of 366 respondents comprising of 226 teachers and 140 prefects, in secondary schools in Gulu Municipality, selected through simple random and expert sampling were studied. Two pre-tested and validated questionnaires were used to collect the data. Three hypotheses were formulated to guide the study and were tested using descriptive statistics and Chi square tests. The study revealed that individual guidance and counselling strategy was commonly used and that learners' level of conformity with the code of conduct is moderate. The results further revealed that learners' level of conformity with the code of conduct does not significantly depend on the guidance and counselling strategy used. Based on these findings, the researchers recommend that school administrators should adopt the use of both individual and group counselling strategies and that Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) should conduct in-service training for all teachers on techniques of guidance and counselling. The study proposes areas for further research including investigating the effectiveness of guidance and counselling services, and the moderating effects of sex, qualification, experience, and school resources on the relationship between the variables.
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I have home work in data structure and I understood a little part of it
so I need your experience
this is the idea and the question
Program Description
Consider a program that manages the payroll of some organization. The three simplest operations performed by this program include:
(i) adding a new employee to the payroll,
(ii) searching for an employee, given some information about her, and
(iii) deleting an employee who has left the organization.
To keep things simple, let us assume that each employee record consists of three fields:
(i) name,
(ii) social security number (ssn), and
(iii) salary.
The three operations mentioned above, can be stated more precisely as follows: INSERT(record): to insert the given employee record into the collection of employee records.
DELETE(ssn): to delete the employee whose ssn is given, from the collection.
SEARCH(ssn): to search the collection for the employee whose ssn is given.
Program Specifications
We need to decide how the collection of records is actually stored in memory and how the above operations will be implemented. This kind of specification defines an abstract data type (ADT). Typically, an ADT can be implemented using one of several different data structures. A useful first step in deciding what data structure to use in a program is to specify an ADT for the program.
Now we consider two alternate data structures for the above ADT:
(i) Unordered array of records: the employee records are stored in an array, in no particular order. There is a variable, say n, that keeps track of the number of employees currently on the payroll.
(ii) Ordered array of records: the employee records are stored in an array, in increasing order of ssn. Again, there is a variable, say n, that keeps track of the number of employees currently on the payroll.
Referring to the provided Java code segments (pages 3-5) complete the following tasks (Whenever you see TO DO: add your code):
(i) Task1: Complete the code, so your program will support insert, delete, and search. After you finish, make another copy of this program using unordered array to insert a new record at the end, sequential search.
(ii) Task2: Implement a function called payRangeQuery that takes two double parameters low and high and print all records of employees whose pay is between low and high. The payRangeQuery function should be implemented as a public method in the RecordDB class.
(iii) Task3: Write a search function that is similar to the currently implemented search function, except that the new search function returns an integer. If the given ssn is found, then the function returns a non-negative integer that is the index of the slot in which the ssn was found. If the given ssn is not found, then the function should return a negative integer, whose magnitude (absolute value) is the index of the slot in which the ssn would have been found, had it been in the array. For example, if the social security numbers in the array are: 10, 20, 30, 40 and we were looking for 22, and then the function should return -2 because if 22 were present in the array it would be in slot 2.
(iv) Task4: Re-implement the "insert" and "delete" functions so that they call the new search function. You would have noticed that both insert and delete currently perform a linear scan of the array; insert does it in order to find a slot to insert the new record in and delete does it in order to find the record with the given ssn. Having implemented the new search function, it is possible to simplify and speed-up both insert and delete by making appropriate calls to the new "search" function.
Record.java public class Record { // data members public int ssn; // Primary Key public String name; public double pay; // The constructor for this class Record (int newSSN, String newName, double newPay) { ssn = newSSN; name = newName; pay = newPay; } // end of constructor } // end of class //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RecordDB.java /********************************************************* * A class containing list of records with insert/delete * * and search functionality. * *********************************************************/ public class RecordDB { private static int maxRecords = 200; private int numRecords = 0; private Record recordList[] = new Record[maxRecords]; //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //Inserts a record into the ordered array in a sorted fashion. //Parameter rec: The record to be inserted. public void insert (Record rec) { // Check for overflow; if overflow, then don't insert if (numRecords == maxRecords-1) { return; } // TO DO: // Find the position to insert in, by scanning the array left-to-right // until a large ssn is located // Then, Shift all records one space down // Then, Insert the new record // Finally, Increment current number of employees in the list // Print All records printAll(); } //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //Deletes a record from the list based on the key (ssn). // Performs a linear scan of the array of records until //a record is found with the given ssn //Parameter ssn public void delete (int newSSN) { // TO DO: //Check for underflow; if underflow, then don't delete // TO DO: // Scan the array searching for the record containing newSSN // Then, Shift all records that are beyond slot i to the left by one slot // Finally, Decrement current number of employees in the list // Print All records printAll(); } //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //Search for the record with the given SSN, Parameter newSSN public Record search (int newSSN) { // Print All records printAll(); // TO DO: // Complete this Binary Search algorithm int first=0, last=numRecords-1; } // end of search function //------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //Prints the list of records to the standard output; private void printAll() { System.out.println("---------------------------------"); for (int i=0; i<numRecords; i++) { System.out.println(""+i+" "+recordList[i].ssn+ " "+recordList[i].name+" " +recordList[i].pay); } } //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Main method - adds and deletes records and searches for some. public static void main(String[] args) { RecordDB recDB = new RecordDB(); recDB.insert(new Record(3, "John", 500)); recDB.insert(new Record(22, "Mike", 2500)); recDB.insert(new Record(13, "Mark", 1760)); recDB.insert(new Record(19, "Bob", 500)); recDB.insert(new Record(7, "Cathy", 500)); Record r = recDB.search(22); if(r == null) System.out.println("Not found"); else System.out.println("Found"); r = recDB.search(34); if(r == null) System.out.println("Not found"); else System.out.println("Found"); recDB.delete(19); recDB.delete(7); recDB.delete(3); recDB.delete(13); recDB.delete(21); recDB.delete(22); recDB.delete(3); } }
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The approaching decade has us wondering if there are more lean years ahead or can we look forward to some real growth again, much like the teen "growth spurt" that typically follows those staid preteen years. Whether your business grows like an always-hungry teen or remains steady state, there are ways to make the most of technology's newest offerings and minimize your cash outlays on the inevitable refresh. If you trust the business analyst's predictions for 2010 and delay your actions until the second half of the year, it's time to start thinking about your next moves. Invariably, those next moves should include investing in open-source software, virtualization and cloud computing.
If you'd rather investigate than invest, you have options that will allow you to move away from traditional computing and into more streamlined and cost-effective strategies. Facing a technology refresh in the next 18 months and current economic conditions might provide you with the impetus you need to investigate new ideas and propel your business effortlessly through those rocky teen years.
Open Source Software
For those steeped in traditional physical server computing, open-source software presents exceptional possibilities often at no charge. Several Linux distributions, office suites, server software, client software and desktop applications made available to you with full source code in tow have distinct advantages over their costly proprietary competition.
First, you'll have a competitive edge if you aren't blowing a stack of greenbacks on licensing fees. Second, open-source software promotes innovation by providing access to the underlying program's source code. You're free to examine, modify and distribute the software, including source code, in any way you wish. Third, you have the freedom to innovate with open source products. Not only can you change the source code, but you can also create a new product from that code and sell your product. (You must include your modified source code with your product according to the original license.) Finally, open source software has the advantage of a worldwide community to support it. Patches, security fixes and updates arrive from all parts of the globe, resulting in software that doesn't rely on any one company's whims or financial stability.
Open-source software frees you to grow and advance at will with fewer restrictions and hassles. If you're looking for unstinted teen growth, open source holds the most promising solutions.
Almost every technical magazine or web site you see brandishes some sort of information, banner ad or blurb about virtualization. There's a perfectly good reason for this: Virtualization works. Virtualization minimizes your hardware footprint while maximizing its utilization. The strategy and its execution are both simple. Underutilized physical machines have their workloads moved to virtual machines that reside on a limited number of virtual host systems. Virtual host systems provide the hardware backbone and computing horsepower to supply resources to several virtual machines simultaneously.
Virtualization allows you to minimize your costs by decreasing the number of system service contracts, lowering power consumption and cooling costs, decreasing downtime due to maintenance and hardware failures, maximizing system utilization, and decreasing your data center footprint, which is especially significant if you lease your space.
Virtualization also makes your business more agile by having the ability to quickly provision a new system or add resources to an existing one. If you need a lean technology solution, virtualization is the answer. It provides you with lowered costs and rapid expandability just what you need to help you through those impetuous teen years.
Cloud Computing
As ubiquitous as the term cool, cloud computing is the premier teen buzzword. You hear it everywhere and see it everywhere. Cloud computing is virtualization on a global scale. To understand cloud computing, think about a huge data center filled with hundreds or thousands of virtual host machines running tens of thousands of virtual host systems. Now imagine multiple data centers just like that one. That's cloud computing.
When someone says to move your workload to the "cloud," that's what they're talking about. Instead of moving your physical machines to virtual ones within your own data center, you move their workloads to a cloud provider's infrastructure. It's analogous to moving your locally hosted web site to an Internet service provider's (ISP's) web server farm. Your applications and files reside on a highly available server system, and you pay a monthly fee for the bandwidth, storage and computing power that you consume.
The largest and most prominent cloud provider is Amazon. Amazon offers its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) services at a fraction of what you'd pay for traditional hosting. And it's just announced three new services: CloudFront Streaming, EC2 Spot Instances and VPC Unlimited Public Beta.
Amazon's CloudFront Streaming gives you the ability to stream audio and video files. The service is easy to setup and use, and it requires no long-term commitments or contracts.
Amazon's EC2 and EC2 Spot Instances leverage Amazon's huge infrastructure for pennies an hour for full virtual machine instances.
Finally, if you're having trouble deciding on how to move your workloads to the cloud, Amazon makes it easy with their Virtual Private Cloud service. This service provides a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection from your network to Amazon's for seamless and secure workload migration.
Cloud computing isn't just another teen angst-inspired buzzword tripping off the tongues of pundits, writers and nerds; it's the future of large-scale, highly available computing. So, if those teens are lean, you can put your business on a rapid weight loss diet with confidence.
The tumultuous teen years, full of anxiety, growing pains and incessant hunger, supply us with just enough joy to keep us going through the lean times without throwing up our hands and quitting. As we mark our business growth in pencil on fiscal doorposts during these next few years, I think we'll see growth spurts sparked by the widespread adoption of open source software, the conversion of traditional single server-based computing environments to virtual ones and the movement of large workloads to cloud-based infrastructure. The teen years promise excitement, newfound loves and a trend toward sensible maturity.
What do you think the teen years will bring to your business environment? Write back and let us know.
Ken Hess is a freelance writer who writes on a variety of open source topics including Linux, databases, and virtualization. He is also the coauthor of Practical Virtualization Solutions, which is scheduled for publication in October 2009. You may reach him through his web site at http://www.kenhess.com.


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Today we launched the latest improvement for clubs - Group Events. Clubs can now create and share group rides and runs with club members.
Clubs admins can begin to make use of this new feature right away by adding group rides and runs to their club pages. Events can be one-time or recurring, can have a route associated with them, and are easily shared with others on Strava, as well as via Twitter, Facebook, and email.
This is just the beginning - there are many ways that we can expand on the events feature in the future and we'd love to hear your ideas. If you have questions, comments or feedback, please post them here!
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The Central Connecticut women's basketball team will host Rhode Island tonight at Detrick Gym. Tip-off of the 2013-14 Home Opener is scheduled for 7 p.m.
The Blue Devils (0-2) and Rams (0-1) opened last season against each other at the Ryan Center on the campus of URI. CCSU earned a 57-49 overtime victory in that game.
Here are some notes on the Blue Devils heading into tonights game...
Series History • The Rams hold a 7-4 advantage in the all-time series between these programs, but CCSU has won the last two meetings. Last season, the Blue Devils went to Kingston, RI, and won 57-49 in overtime. The game was the season opener for both squads. The Blue Devils also won the 2011-12 meeting at Detrick Gym, 50-45.
Road Opening • The Blue Devils opened the 2013-14 season on the road at American Athletic Conference members UCF and South Florida. The Blue Devils fell on Friday to the Knights by a score of 65-51 and to the Bulls on Sunday 81-47. The Blue Devils were led by seniors Jessica Babe and Lauren Arbogast over the weekend. Babe averaged 12.0 points and 6.0 rebounds per game, while Arbogast averaged 9.5 points and 5.0 boards.
Career-High for Babe • Jessica Babe matched her career-high with 21 points against the UCF Knights. She connected on seven-of-13 shots from the floor and hit four three pointers, Babe did not miss a shot inside of the three point line in the game. She also had her standard eight rebounds and four assists.
Harrington on the Boards • Head coach Beryl Piper said prior to the season that sophomore Amanda Harrington needed to rebound when she was on the floor. Harrington followed through by pulling down 15 boards over the first two games of the season. She averaged 5.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 24 minutes per game over the first two contests.
Getting on the Board • Freshman Aleah Epps and Lauren Wolosik both scored their first collegiate points on Sunday at USF. Wolosik connected on a pair of free throws eight minutes into the first quarter, while Epps dropped in a basket during the second half. Wolosik finished the game with six points and Epps with four.
Great at Home • The Blue Devils have won three straight home openers, including a 78-69 victory over UMass last season. Under head coach Beryl Piper the Blue Devils are 4-2 in home openers. The Blue Devils were 11-3 at home last season, including 8-1 in NEC home games. This is nothing new for the Blue Devils who are 29-11 at home over the last three seasons.
Who is Back • The Blue Devils return 11 players from last year's squad, including three starters. Seniors Jessica Babe and Jaleen Thomas and junior Kaley Watras. Senior Lauren Arbogast saw extensive action off the bench last season as CCSU's sixth-women and worked her way into the starting line-up 12 times. Also returning are junior Johnna Fisher, sophomores Raven Makins, Tejahne Malone, Kayla Miller, Nicole Ferguson and Amanda Harrington. Senior Brooke Bailey will also return to action after sitting out last season.
The New • Freshmen Giocelis Reynoso, Aleah Epps, Chayla Lewis and Lauren Wolosik make up the CCSU class of 2017.
Who is Gone • The Blue Devils lost Jaclyn Babe, Kirsten Daamen and Jameilia Dillon to graduation. Babe played only two seasons with CCSU, but became one of the program's elite scorers and was a First Team All-NEC selection last season after scoring 474 points. Daamen, CCSU's career leader in blocked shots with 200, was a defensive force for CCSU in the paint over her four seasons. Dillon provided CCSU with valuable minutes off the bench in in a spot start roll over her career.


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I have the following code:
if (localID == 0) {
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atom_add(&cov[idy], aux);
The problem is that if I just want to save those sums on cov array (which is global), outside the kernel I can read the data and everything is fine. But, if I want to do this after:
*f = cov[0];
The values stored on cov array (on any of its positions) are not consistent yet, even if before this line I put a fence or barrier. In this case, shouldn't occur some sort of flushing on the atomic operations so the values on cov[] could be used?


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Ignacio Mattos on Honest Food and Why the Lights are So Dark at Estela
"I just want people to feel comfortable with the food—that it's fair, that it's reasonable, and that it makes perfect sense."
For the first time since I started penning this column, I went to an interview without a list of questions or projected structure for it. Because, quite frankly, so much has been written in the short span since Chef Ignacio Mattos' Estela opened, my brain was a tad fogged up by words practically drooled out all over the web. Yes, the food media usually lunges into new hotspots; I just don't normally talk to the chef until things have cooled a bit.
And it seems, from the discussion that evolved, that Mattos hadn't had much time to digest it all either. And that's fair—a chef who's had his dramatic departure from Isa brought back to life again and has thousands of eyes on him, digging in three-deep at the bar while waiting on a table, might be smart just to focus on his kitchen. So that's where we started—with what's on the plate, and why he wants it there.
What's the focus for this menu? That it tastes good.
What does that mean for you? It needs to eat well and make sense on the palate, and then it needs to look humble and simple and unpretentious. I just want them to look like nothing.
That's sort of funny considering how many people have already written of your food with poetic reverence. There is complexity but, when you see it, it's a pile of meat. Or a pile of endives. And I've been using ingredients that are... I would say "bastardized" more than forgotten. Like button mushrooms—people are "meh" about them. Or endives—they're not "trendy" ingredients. It has to taste good and have a homey element, and it has to maybe fulfill the idea that you can make it at home. It takes certain commitment to deal with a dish in a certain way, but it looks like, "Eh, sure, I can do this." We're on the right path, but it's still not what I expect it to be.
What's the ultimate goal? That it's good food with an identity. That it tastes a certain way and that the menu and the food look a very particular way. I don't want it to be trendy; I just want it to be its own thing. But, again, that's my perspective. I just want people to feel comfortable with the food—that it's fair, that it's reasonable, and that it makes perfect sense. Also, I want things to be more perennial rather than seasonal. I want the bones of the menu to be something that you can have throughout all four seasons. And that's evolving.
You had a good amount of time between leaving Isa and opening Estela. Was a change in direction of the cuisine a specific reaction your menu there? That period was great for the time that it was, but now it's about trying to shape a completely different thing. You learn from mistakes, and try to improve them. I had a lot of free time and I was trying to get isolated in terms of trends and whatever was happening around them to do food that is simple, and feels right, and is honest. That was the main objective—it wasn't about the food, it wasn't about the wine, or me or Thomas [Carter, partner], it was about building a place that felt right for us. It's hard because people like to define food, and if the food is good and people think that the food is blah-blah-blah-blah-blah, great, but that wasn't really the goal. It was very humbling; we weren't really expecting all the press reaction, so I think people get that what we're trying to do something honest. In this industry there's craziness and fun but, I don't know... it's hard to talk about this place!
What were some limitations you had to work with? The kitchen is not really much—we tried to keep some of the equipment that was there, but there are no gimmicks, and not a lot of tools for this and that. I really liked that, because in terms of ingredients, I don't want anything really strange or weird.
Why? It's just too much information and you start getting lost in it. Like, I don't really want to see pictures of food—you lose focus of what you're doing. I know the things I don't want to fall into.
We're a saturated food community socially in New York. Does that saturation outside the kitchen have anything to do with it? Yeah, I think it's a combination. We are saturated with everything. We even make it very dark so you can't take pictures in here. And when people still take pictures and post them I'm like, "Why did you put this picture up, it looks terrible!" I wanted to eliminate all those gimmicks.
How do you foster an environment that your chefs will want to be a part of for a long while? We're trying to create a structure that is nice and sustainable, so we teach them structure and how to work smartly in the kitchen. Most of the time in the kitchen it's like running without a head—you put too much pressure on yourself and forget about thinking. There is a discipline for our way of working, but I want to have fun. And it's very gratifying to have a team that we can be proud of.
Simplifying and being present seem to be important to you. Is that a personal struggle, too? You try to simplify in life, yes, totally. But it's a constant struggle. We were talking about the constant coaching, like, if we say the word "problem," we are making a problem. If we say "issue", it's an issue. We are all complicated, and we all make things more complicated than they actually are and don't notice, you know?
The way you're thinking through things and that recognition is pretty deep and sorta spiritual for such an early stage of a restaurant. I've been fucking up so much! You try to learn, and teach the people around you not to make the same mistakes that you did. Everybody has their own path in life, there's not much you can do, so here we just try to keep it tight and provide a challenging environment that is realistic. That evolves. And it's difficult but... I forgot what we were talking about. Oh, yeah, the spiritual thing. I had a very interesting thing this past weekend, so I'm a little out of it...
Can you share? No, I can't! But it was pretty spiritually intense.
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The Planck spacecraft has almost completed its final testing phase and is on its way to being launch-ready. The testing phase began in late March this year, and has taken the spacecraft all over Europe, making it go hot, cold and shaky to test its robustness.
Planck, ESA's flagship microwave observatory, is scheduled for launch next year. It will survey the Universe at microwave wavelengths, conducting the most precise study yet of the echo of the Big Bang.
At ESTEC
Planck arrived at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) from the facilities of Thales-Alenia Space in Cannes on 28 March 2008 to begin the first of the series of tests. After arrival, the spacecraft was transferred to the Large Space Simulator (LSS) for fine-balance tests.
Fine-balance tests
A spin-stabilised spacecraft, Planck is designed to spin at the rate of 1 rotation/minute during observations.
Once inside the LSS, on Wednesday, 2 April, the spacecraft underwent fine-balance tests. These tests are carried out to check the inertial properties of the spacecraft, to ensure that the spacecraft spins around its nominal spin axis, with minimal disturbance. A dry run was held at first, followed by the actual test during which Planck was spun at 30 rotations per minute under light-vacuum conditions (1 millibar pressure).
At Centre Spatial Liège
Having completed the fine-balance tests inside the Large Space Simulator, the spacecraft left ESTEC for Centre Spatial Liège (CSL), Belgium. The spacecraft arrived at CSL on 23 April 2008, for thermal and cryogenic spacecraft system tests.
Thermal balance/ thermal vacuum tests
Planck's thermal balance/thermal vacuum (TBTV) tests were carried out successfully at CSL. Prior to these tests, several others, including the system operational validation test, SOVT-1, were performed. The SOVT-1 demonstrated that telemetry was received correctly from the spacecraft, was distributed to the Instrument Data Processing Centres and interpreted correctly by the science teams. This test was managed by the Mission Operations Centre at ESA's European Space Operations Centre, ESOC, in Darmstadt, Germany.
The objective of the TBTV tests was to demonstrate that the spacecraft works nominally at its lower and upper operational temperature limits, and in the cold vacuum conditions that simulate those encountered in space.
The tests also verified that the sophisticated cryogenic cooling system of Planck achieves the correct temperatures (down to a tenth of a degree above absolute zero) and that the instruments demonstrated the required performance.
The spacecraft has been removed from the facility after completion of the test and is now undergoing a final set of functional tests.
Planck is planned to launch in early 2009 atop an Ariane-5 from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. It will be launched with ESA's Herschel spacecraft, in a dual launch configuration.


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Im very happy to announce the release of Pymunk 5.0!
See http://www.pymunk.org for more details and instructions on what Pymunk is
and how to use it.
This is a BIG release of Pymunk! Just in time before Pymunk turns 10 next year!
* Support for 64 Python on Windows
* Updated to use Chipmunk 7 which includes lots of great improvements
* Updated to use CFFI for wrapping, giving improved development and packaging
(wheels, yay!)
* New util module with draw help for matplotlib (with example Jupyter notebooks)
* Support for automatically generate geometry. Can be used for such things as
deformable terrain (example included).
* Deprecated obsolete submodule pymunk.util.
* Lots of smaller improvements
New in this release is also testing on Travis and Appveyor to ensure good code
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Climate Change presents a variety of risks to human health and our built environment, such as heat-related illness and disease, insect born disease, rising sea levels, stronger storms, more floods and storm-related damage, drought, crop failure and fire hazards. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the last decade is the warmest on record, and 2010 is breaking new records. In Russia temperatures hit a record 111 degrees F this summer, fires smothered Moscow in smog and crop losses from drought amount to about 30 billion dollars – roughly 10 percent of the national budget. Russian economic growth is expected to fall by 0.8-1 percent from estimated 4 percent growth. After the Russian ban on wheat exports the price of wheat per bushel rose nearly 55 percent since the beginning of this summer. Flooding in Pakistan means that at least six million people will go hungry and a 10 to 15 percent reduction in agricultural production. GDP growth is estimated to fall in 2011 from 4.4 percent to 3.1 percent. Rehabilitation and reconstruction could cost about $5 billion.
According to Swiss Re, up to 3.4 billion people are threatened by storms, floods, drought and other natural hazards, primarily in the developing and emerging markets. Without further investments in adaptation, climate risks could cost some countries up to 19 percent of annual GDP by 2030, undoing years of development gains. The United Nations estimates that by 2030 the world should be spending an additional USD 36 to 135 billion each year to address the effects of climate change.
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Robert Cathey joined the McCormick Seminary faculty in 1998 and was named Professor of Theology in 2008. He has taught at The Near East School of Theology (Beirut, Lebanon), Monmouth College (Monmouth, IL), Davidson College, and William Paterson University (NJ). Ordained in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), he served one year as Chaplain of Monmouth College and was Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (1993-1997).
He is a member of the Christian Leadership Initiative of the American Jewish Committee and the Shalom Hartman Institute (Jerusalem) that included intensive study in Jerusalem in July 2010 and 2011. He is also a member of the Christian Scholars Group for Christian-Jewish Relations (2008-2013). He serves in the Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Work Group of the Presbytery of Chicago, and attended the fourth and fifth Parliaments of the World's Religions in Barcelona, Spain (July, 2004), and Melbourne, Australia (December, 2009).
He is a member of The Center of Theological Inquiry (Princeton, NJ), and was the first convener of the Society for Scriptural Reasoning (1996-99), an organization that engages Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scholars in philosophic and theological interpretation of scriptural texts.
Robert is the author of God in Postliberal Perspective: Between Realism and Non-Realism (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009). He has written or co-authored essays, articles, or reviews in Modern Theology, The Review of Metaphysics, Interpretation, Ars Disputandi, Currents in Theology and Mission, Ecumenical Trends, McCormick Notes, Theological Education, Pro Ecclesia, Princeton Seminary Bulletin, Union Seminary Quarterly Review, and Theological Students Fellowship Bulletin. He contributed chapters or articles to Feasting on the Word: Lectionary Commentary Series (Westminster John Knox Press); Shaping Beloved Community: Multicultural Theological Education (Westminster John Knox Press, 2006); Ecumenical Theology in Worship, Doctrine, and Life (Oxford University Press, 1999); Festschrift in Honor of Charles Speel (Monmouth College, 1996); Dictionary of Christianity in America (InterVarsity Press, 1990).
His teaching and research interests include classic Christian doctrines, practices, and figures in modern and late modern perspectives, and religious pluralism in Chicago and the Middle East.
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* M.Div. Princeton Theological Seminary (Princeton, NJ)
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All professional education content courses leading to certification shall include teaching and assessment of the Wisconsin Content Standards in the content area.
In this column, list the Wisconsin Content Standards that are included in this course. The Standards for each content area are found in the Wisconsin Content Standards document.
In this column, indicate the nature of the performance assessments used in this course to evaluate student proficiency in each standard.
The structures within the discipline, the historical roots and evolving nature of mathematics, and the interaction between technology and the discipline.
Many historical topics are discussed in this survey course of the single variable calculus. Graphing calculators and the computer algebra system Mathematica are used to demonstrate concepts and procedures. Students are assessed through homework, the final exam, and small oral presentations.
Facilitating the building of student conceptual and procedural understanding.
Focus is given to the variety of ways (graphical, numerical, verbal, and algebraic) in which calculus concepts may be understood by students.
Helping all students build understanding of the discipline including:
. Confidence in their abilities to utilize mathematical knowledge.
. Awareness of the usefulness of mathematics.
. The economic implications of fine mathematical preparation.
Students are tested on their ability to apply the mathematical knowledge gained in the course to problems on homework and tests. The usefulness of mathematics is particularly emphasized when topics such as: differential equations and integral applications are discussed.
Exploring, conjecturing, examining and testing all aspects of problem solving.
Aspects of problem-solving are assessed on homework and the final examination.
Formulating and posing worthwhile mathematical tasks, solving problems using several strategies, evaluating results, generalizing solutions, using problem solving approaches effectively, and applying mathematical modeling to real-world situations.
Most problem sets contain some application problems.
Making convincing mathematical arguments, framing mathematical questions and conjectures, formulating counter-examples, constructing and evaluating arguments, and using intuitive, informal exploration and formal proof.
Students asked to construct convincing mathematical arguments in class as well as on tests.
Expressing ideas orally, in writing, and visually-, using mathematical language, notation, and symbolism; translating mathematical ideas between and among contexts.
Students are challenged to show their work on homework and final exam problems. A paper of significant length contributes one-third of the final grade for the course.
Connecting the concepts and procedures of mathematics, drawing connections between mathematical strands, between mathematics and other disciplines, and with daily life.
Daily problem assignments are made to assess the student's ability to connect concepts with procedures.
Selecting appropriate representations to facilitate mathematical problem solving and translating between and among representations to explicate problem-solving situations.
A variety of approaches (graphical, algebraic, numeric, and verbal) to posing and solving problems is emphasized.
Mathematical processes including:
. Problem solving.
. Communication.
. Reasoning and formal and informal argument.
. Mathematical connections.
. Representations.
. Technology.
Homework problems are of two types; exercise and problem-solving. Students are required to justify answers through informal arguments. Use of graphing calculators and computer algebra systems is helpful for some problems.
Number operations and relationships from both abstract and concrete perspectives identifying real world applications, and representing and connecting mathematical concepts and procedures including:
. Number sense.
. Set theory.
. Number and operation.
. Composition and decomposition of numbers, including place value, primes, factors, multiples, inverses, and the extension of these concepts throughout mathematics.
. Number systems through the real numbers, their properties and relations.
. Computational procedures.
. Proportional reasoning.
. Number theory.
The structure and properties of real and complex numbers is an emphasized topic. Some number theory results are treated to illustrate application of geometric series and other proofs based on series expansions For example, proof of the irrationality of e based on its Maclaurin series expansion, proof of the structure of even perfect numbers based on finite geometric series.
Mathematical concepts and procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level number operations and relationships including:
. Advanced counting procedures, including union and intersection of sets, and parenthetical operations.
. Algebraic and transcendental numbers.
. The complex number system, including polar coordinates.
. Approximation techniques as a basis for numerical integration, fractals, and numerical-based proofs.
. Situations in which numerical arguments presented in a variety of classroom and real-world situations (e.g., political, economic, scientific, social) can be created and critically evaluated.
. Opportunities in which acceptable limits of error can be assessed (e.g., evaluating strategies, testing the reasonableness of results, and using technology to carry out computations).
The accuracy of numerical differentiation and integration formulas is discussed and error bounds are derived. Students are expected to exhibit a familiarity with these results on homework and examination problems.
Geometry and measurement from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and mathematical concepts, procedures and connections among them including:
. Formal and informal argument.
. Names, properties, and relationships of two- and three-dimensional shapes.
. Spatial sense.
. Spatial reasoning and the use of geometric models to represent, visualize, and solve problems.
. Transformations and the ways in which rotation, reflection, and translation of shapes can illustrate concepts, properties, and relationships.
. Coordinate geometry systems including relations between coordinate and synthetic geometry, and generalizing geometric principles from a two-dimensional system to a three-dimensional system.
. Concepts of measurement, including measurable attributes, standard and non-standard units, precision and accuracy, and use of appropriate tools.
. The structure of systems of measurement, including the development and use of measurement systems and the relationships among different systems. Measurement including length, area, volume, size of angles, weight and mass, time, temperature, and money.
. Measuring, estimating, and using measurement to describe and compare geometric phenomena.
. Indirect measurement and its uses, including developing formulas and procedures for determining measure to solve problems.
Students must show a mastery of quite a bit of planar analytic geometry. Measuring areas and volumes are fundamental problems of calculus and appear in homework and exam questions.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level geometry and measurement including:
. Systems of geometry, including Euclidean, non-Euclidean, coordinate, transformational, and projective geometry.
. Transformations, coordinates, and vectors and their use in problem solving. Three-dimensional geometry and its generalization to other dimensions. Topology, including topological properties and transformations.
. Opportunities to present convincing arguments by means of demonstration, informal proof, counter-examples, or other logical means to show the truth of statements and/or generalizations.
Students are tested over their ability to present convincing arguments. Sometimes this is accomplished through counter-examples or indirect proof. Emphasis in the course is placed on proving propositions that are usually left unproven in an undergraduate calculus course. Students are responsible for recreating some of these proofs on homework and the final.
Statistics and probability from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and the mathematical concepts, procedures and the connections between them including:
. Use of data to explore real-world issues.
. The process of investigation including formulation of a problem, designing a data collection plan, and collecting, recording, and organizing data.
. Data representation through graphs, tables, and summary statistics to describe data distributions, central tendency, and variance.
. Analysis and interpretation of data.
. Randomness, sampling, and inference.
. Probability as a way to describe chances or risk in simple and compound events.
. Outcome prediction based on experimentation or theoretical probabilities.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level statistics and probability including:
. Use of the random variable in the generation and interpretation of probability distributions.
. Descriptive and inferential statistics, measures of disbursement, including validity and reliability, and correlation.
. Probability theory and its link to inferential statistics.
. Discrete and continuous probability distributions as bases for inference.
. Situations in which students can analyze, evaluate, and critique the methods and conclusions of statistical experiments reported in journals, magazines, news media, advertising, etc.
Functions, algebra, and basic concepts underlying calculus from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and the mathematical concepts, procedures and the connections among them including:
. Patterns.
. Functions as used to describe relations and to model real world situations.
. Representations of situations that involve variable quantities with expressions, equations and inequalities and that include algebraic and geometric relationships.
. Multiple representations of relations, the strengths and limitations of each representation, and conversion from one representation to another.
. Attributes of polynomial, rational, trigonometric, algebraic, and exponential functions.
. Operations on expressions and solution of equations, systems of equations and inequalities using concrete, informal, and formal methods.
. Underlying concepts of calculus, including rate of change, limits, and approximations for irregular areas.
The analysis of functions of a single variable is the principal objective of the course. Students are required to show mastery of elementary calculus concepts, such as, limits, differentiability, and continuity in this context. Some equation - solving required as a subtask to many problems in the homework and on tests. Some work with inequalities (making bounds: upper and lower) is also assessed on problems and the final exam.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level functions, algebra, and concepts of calculus including:
. Concepts of calculus, including limits (epsilon-delta) and tangents, derivatives, integrals, and sequences and series.
. Modeling to solve problems.
. Calculus techniques including finding limits, derivatives, integrals, and using special rules.
. Calculus applications including modeling, optimization, velocity and acceleration, area, volume, and center of mass.
. Numerical and approximation techniques including Simpson's rule, trapezoidal rule, Newton's Approximation, and linearization.
. Multivariate calculus.
. Differential equations.
Students must show mastery of basic and advanced concepts of single variable calculus and apply them in problem-solving situations. These topics include almost all of the topics listed at left. Mastery is demonstrated on the final exam, homework, small oral presentations, answering questions in class and an assigned paper.
Discrete processes from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and the mathematical concepts, procedures and the connections among them including:
. Counting techniques.
. Representation and analysis of discrete mathematics problems using sequences, graph theory, arrays, and networks.
. Iteration and recursion.
Iteration and recursion arises in when discussing some topics, such as: series, sequences, Newton's method, solving first-order differential equations graphically with slope fields, approximating irrational numbers, etc.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level discrete mathematics including:
. Topics, including symbolic logic, induction, linear programming, and finite graphs.
. Matrices as a mathematical system, and matrices and matrix operations as tools for recording information and for solving problems.
. Developing and analyzing algorithms.
Some induction proofs assigned. Calculus techniques are used to analyze some algorithms. Some algorithms based on calculus concepts (for example, Newton's method) are thoroughly discussed.


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By law, federal funds haven't paid for abortions since the 1970s, so the House hasn't voted to cut abortion funding. They're cutting funding for the entire Title X program — funding for contraception, cancer screening, STI tests, sex education, mammograms, HIV testing and diagnosis, and pregnancy screening and counseling. Title X is the only federal program dedicated solely to providing individuals with comprehensive family planning and preventive health services, particularly low-income families. Last year, 5 million people benefited from the services funded by Title X.
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|Nineteenth-century American military collection
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|The Nineteenth-century American military collection is an artificial collection that contains 1.6 linear feet of American military records spanning the period 1846-1903. The bulk of the collection dates from the[...] American Civil War (1861-1865). Additional records are from the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) and the remainder of the nineteenth century. There are also five items pertaining to the Mexican War (1846-1848) and two documents from the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers from 1856-1858. The records primarily document the administrative and bureaucratic logistics of waging a war and maintaining an army. Items include official correspondence between officers; orders; morning, trimonthly, and consolidated reports of unit manpower and supplies; food inspections; cargo and livestock manifests; provisions for supplies; and discharges and appointments of individual soldiers. Some personal letters (11 items) to and from Civil War soldiers are also present, as are a number of personal letters to and from Civil War veterans written during the post-war period.
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The ACE full tube amplifier is the perfect blend of the 59' Bassmann and the 62' JTM45. Just like it's predecessors this amplifier is super dynamic and responds very well to your playing and the volume-knob of your guitar. The ACE was designed to take pedals and loves boosts, Fuzz's, distortions, phasers, flangers, tremolos and wahs.
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It's single channel layout combined with 2 footswitchable modes makes this amp feel like second nature, very musical and very easy to use. The gain (pre-gain) and master (post-gain) open an entire world of tone varieties from sparkling clean to tasty crunch tones. There is no amp that does so many styles so well, from Jazz to Rock to Blues to pop, your tone is always ace.
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Minnesota Aims to Ratchet Down Achievement Gap
As some states use their No Child Left Behind Act waivers to try to move far away from certain aspects of the law, Minnesota is doing the opposite when it comes to accountability—and with early, promising results.
The state is eschewing popular education policy trends such as A-F grading systems, state takeover districts, and "supersubgroups" of at-risk students in favor of policies that embrace the spirit of the 12-year-old accountability law. Minnesota is elevating the importance of small subgroups of at-risk students, issuing progress reports to districts on achievement gaps, and relying on regional centers to help struggling schools.
The payoff for such unflashy work? Early data show that about three-quarters of districts are on track to cut their achievement gaps in half by 2017 for nearly all of their subgroups—a key goal of the NCLB waivers offered by the U.S. Department of Education. Graduation rates for black students in 2012-13 increased at six times the rate of white students from the previous school year. More than 70 percent of Minnesota's lowest-performing "priority" and "focus" schools have shown improvement on test scores.
What's more, unlike most other states, Minnesota has passed federal waiver monitoring by the Education Department with flying colors.
"We do really well with overall achievement, but we have struggled with achievement disparities among subgroups," said Brenda Cassellius, Minnesota's education commissioner. "We hadn't seen our at-risk kids gain any traction. Now, we have created a clear goal around these disparities."
'Lack of Urgency'
Overall, Minnesota is a high-performing state academically, but it has some of the highest achievement gaps in the country between white minority students, and between low-income students and their more affluent peers. Those gaps have caught the attention of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who in a January 2011 speech to the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce criticized the state for its "lack of urgency" and its stalled progress in raising the achievement of disadvantaged students.
So when the department offered waivers under NCLB later that year, Minnesota jumped at the chance—and selected as its overarching goal that achievement gaps be cut in half by 2017.
The state's school improvement strategy is more than just a goal, however.
Under its No Child Left behind Act waiver, Minnesota aims to cut achievement gaps in half for all eight subgroups of students, including low-income students, minorities, and students with disabilities by 2017. About 40 percent of districts are on track to meet that goal in math and reading for all eight subgroups.
The new accountability system is heavy on multiple data points, giving schools and districts information on proficiency rates, student growth, achievement gaps, and graduation rates for high schools.
"We didn't want to mash it up into an A-F grade. There was power in giving every single school an achievement-gap score," said Ms. Cassellius, who was appointed commissioner in January 2011 by Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat.
The state is boosting literacy training and focusing on state and local data teams that can help teachers make sense of the new information.
And perhaps most importantly, the state has elevated the role of its regional support centers in helping the lowest-performing schools. The state legislature recently gave the department an additional $2 million to double the number of these "centers of excellence" to six.
"We are not taking over schools. They should find the solutions," Ms. Cassellius said.
Bay View Elementary School is one of the state's lowest-performing "priority schools"—meaning it ranks in the bottom 5 percent for achievement—and also a recipient of aid through the federal School Improvement Grant program. The 550-student school, in which 43 percent of pupils are low-income, has struggled with overall proficiency rates and student growth, said Principal Diane Morin, who was brought in as a new principal two years ago when the school got its SIG designation.
Although her school's label has come with a host of interventions and resources—from an additional 10 minutes a day of instructional time to a parent liaison—Ms. Morin said new instructional coaches and teacher-led "professional learning communities" have been the most important. And all have been coordinated by her school's designated center for excellence.
"Before, there wasn't a lot of accountability," said Ms. Morin, referring to the pre-waiver NCLB era. "You'd go write a plan and it would sit. I called it shelf art. Now, every couple of months we update our school improvement plan and submit it to the state. It's really upped the accountability. And people are really buying in."
Local buy-in—and stability within the state's education policy landscape—may be key to Minnesota's early success in closing gaps.
Anne Hyslop, a policy analyst for the Washington-based New America Foundation who has closely studied the waivers, said that one other thing sets Minnesota apart: The state has adopted the Common Core State Standards only in English/language arts, and has stuck with its own tests versus joining the new federally supported consortia developing new assessments.
"They haven't had to deal with the distraction. There's been a lot of stability," she said. "It does help when teachers and principals and district officials know what's coming."
Separately, state officials point out that the state hasn't been mired in legislative battles over teacher hiring practices, vouchers, or so-called "parent-trigger" laws. Nor has the state asked for additional flexibility from federal officials around teacher evaluations or testing.
Yet the state's waiver, and its new accountability path, are not without their critics.
The Minnesota Business Partnership gives the state credit for highlighting successful "reward" and "celebration" schools, and for extra supports for the lowest-performing schools. But it doesn't like that the state's student-growth model compares students' growth against other students versus an absolute proficiency standard, said Jim Bartholomew, the group's education policy director. And, the business group feels there's not a lot of attention paid to schools that are not among the lowest performing.
"We have a huge achievement gap, and there is a sense of urgency," Mr. Bartholomew said. "There is not a lot of directed action for schools in the middle."
Emphasis on Subgroups
One of the most significant deviations that states made from the original NCLB Act was in backing away from the law's emphasis on disaggregating data for small subgroups of at-risk students. More than a dozen states, in their approved waivers, instead decided to group students together into one low-performing supersubgroup. They argued that this new tactic would get around issues with subgroups that don't have enough students to warrant statistically reliable achievement data.
But Minnesota stuck with its eight subgroups, gave them more prominence, and is now reporting and holding districts accountable for how subgroups of students fare in graduation rates as well. In its new school and district rating system, three (or four) factors are weighted equally: student proficiency, growth, reduction in achievement gaps, and graduation rates for high schools.
Minnesota earned a nod of praise from the Education Trust, which has been highly critical of how federal officials structured the waivers and how states have redesigned their accountability systems in response. The Washington-based advocacy group doesn't think most states are putting enough emphasis on closing gaps in their new ratings systems. But Minnesota is one exception, the group said in a Feb. 2013 report, because it incorporates achievement gaps into its new ratings system.
And in defense of the traditional subgroup categories, Ms. Cassellius, the Minnesota commissioner, said students are not lost in Minnesota's accountability system given its student-growth measure.
"Every kid has a predicted growth score now," said Ms. Cassellius, noting that schools earn points for each student's progress toward the predicted growth rate. "Every kid matters. Even if they're proficient."
And as state officials like to say, all means all. In Minnesota, the achievement gap is measured by comparing the growth of a disadvantaged subgroup against the statewide average growth of higher-performing peers. So the growth of students of color at one school is measured against the statewide growth average for white students. Low-income students at an individual school are compared against their wealthier peers statewide.
And, white students in a school are compared against white students statewide. Now, Ms. Cassellius said, 220 school districts are not meeting goals for their white students and are getting flagged—something they likely avoided under the original NCLB.
"We have really high-performing white students. You still want them to grow—every school and every subgroup," she said.
Focus on Achievement Gaps
The federal waiver's requirements forced all states, including Minnesota, to zero in not just on the lowest-performing schools, but on "focus" schools that have the largest achievement gaps. But these focus schools have been a particular weak spot for states as they implement their waiver plans, as federal officials find that interventions are not often linked to the reason achievement gaps exist in the first place.
This is not a problem in Minnesota, according to its federal monitoring report.
Case in point is Garlough Elementary, a K-4 environmental magnet school just south of the Twin Cities that has seen large achievement gaps among its Hispanic students. Reading has been a particularly tough subject for the school.
Working with its regional support center, the school has revamped its reading programs—creating assessments to identify children's reading levels, focusing on guided reading in the classroom, and using a literacy coach. And as a result, the achievement gaps—particularly among Hispanic students—closed significantly in 2013, state data show.
"Under NCLB we were never labeled a bad school. We had never gone through a school improvement process. So when we got this 'focus' designation it felt really horrible," said Sue Powell, who is in her ninth year as the principal at the 350-student school. "But the support we've got has been phenomenal."
Vol. 33, Issue 22, Pages 1, 19Published in Print: February 26, 2014, as Minnesota Aims to Ratchet Down Achievement Gap
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Keyword Sprawl: You May Surprise YourselfBlog Post: August 16, 2007
Keyword Sprawl
I love this term! But I use it in a slightly different way. Keyword sprawl, to me, is a natural occurrence. It is something that happens naturally. And this is something I am constantly explaining to my clients. While I optimize for 1-3 terms per page, they will inevitably be optimized for several other terms as well.
Take the diaper example. While my page may be about diapers, I may also have a paragraph describing why the target audience needs that website. And here, I may have a few keyword phrases like 'pregnancy news' or 'baby advice'. This page may have a list of products, which has pull-ups, swimmers, overnights, etc. So, it is a natural occurrence that the thumbnail pages and/or the paragraph will discuss other terms than the page targets on purpose…'diapers'
The company name is another example. It is usually not the same as the targeted keyword phrases, and without even trying, that name naturally becomes optimized. (Usually, it's in the title, the logo, the logo alt, the footer, …).
And don't forget the anchor text and links … we all know how this plays a vital role in SEO. This does add to the natural sprawl of keyword phrases your web pages are optimized for.
So to my hungry customers who want to rank well for the entire long tail, I say, wait, with related content (and links), the keyword sprawl will come. Not only will the site rank well for the targeted list, but it will also rank well for the natural sprawl of related keywords, which are usually much less competitive.
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Voodoo offers a unique lease-based Pick-to-Light system designed to modernize warehouse operations by leveraging the latest IIoT (Industrial Internet-of-Things) technology. The picking hardware integrates effortlessly with existing WMS (Warehouse Management Systems), or ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems allowing distribution centers, warehouses, and 3PLs (third party logistics) to scale operations, only paying for the lights needed each month. This revolutionary approach to leasing Pick-to-Light devices on a month-to-month, pay-as-you-go basis avoids long-term commitments and costly up-front fees.
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The company also provides smart, ROI (return-on-investment) driven Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS) with an innovative 3D user interface, compatible with Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Safari. The robotic systems are designed, simulated and run, all using a Warehouse Descriptive Language (WDL), a concept invented by the company.
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